with republicans like hannity finally realizing that the party s toxic, regressive, authoritarian policies have sparked a voter backlash. also tonight, new reporting that donald trump almost certainly knew that a president cannot declassify documents just by stuffing them in a box and hauling them to the old golf resort, as repeatedly has claimed. plus, elon musk s off the rails interview. the man who runs one of the biggest social media sites raises alarms with toxic comments about george sorros and the texas mall shooter among other things. but we begin tonight with the republican s toxic brand. remember the 2022 midterms the red wave felt more like an orange trickle? that keeps happening. last night was another really bad night for the republican party, several key races in florida, colorado underscoring how the right wing grip on our politics is slipping. in florida, democrat donna deegan won the mayor s race in jacksonville. which had been the largest city in the u
closing in out. we have to send a great signal and then maybe these people just say, okay, it is over now. trump tries to finish off his gop rivals with nikki haley rising in the polls, is there still time to take him down. plus balancing act. president biden is heartbroken by civilians deaths in gaza. but that it is still not time. they plan on attacking israel again. is he out of step with most democr democrats. and out of order. a new republican speaker grapples with the house in disarray. what could the gop get done. i want my republican colleagues to give me one thing that i could campaign on and say we did. good morning and welcome to inside politics sunday. i m manu raju. everybody could go home. the 2024 primary race is over. that is the message that former trump had for his republican challenges yesterday in iowa. the first in the nation contest is still about two months away. but the runway front-runner said he s ready to ramp it up there and move
during a mass shooting. and then they wonder why they can t win? no matter how they dress up these issues, calling them pro life, which at this point is just laughable gaslighting, or the right to bear arms, which is code for the right to kill whoever i want with my ar-15 or my bare hands. voters are proving that this is not what most americans want. which brings us to ron desantis, the avatar of white grievance politic whose would be presidential platform caters to minority fringe positions and fake problems. tuesday was a bad night for desantis in particular. two of the candidates he endorsed flopped in their races. instead, it was trump s pick that defeated the desantis-backed candidate in kentucky s closely-watched gubernatorial primary. the winner daniel cameron, is a mitch mcconnell groomed candidate. attorney general refused to charge breonna taylor s killers. the endorsement fight just shows what desantis is up against as stakes his political future on the idea that the only wa
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stance against against vaccine mandates. is this the price, of staying on brand, with the magma crowd, and going after the nomination of your party? if you re a republican lawmaker? yes. these guys are playing republican primary politics, where i think overtime, it s going to be proven to be a weaker bet than they think it, is the other side of the equation is, they get in trouble in the general elections. covid is bad for incumbents. i don t care what party there in, and you re seeing all over the country, newsom here in california is in serious jeopardy of the recall, gretchen whitmer in michigan, saying lower poll numbers, if you are an incumbent committees bad because people are mad, and they want this thing to get solved and go away, but desantis in particular, to some extent abbott, is leading with his chin into the meat, grinder the polling shows, among